1592999679000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-76481 1752602738384 1714400631000 1752602690710 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-76481 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76481 676a7300-813d-370d-a5ea-5e70b3174ce4 6 reference agent-188449 adlib-agent-188449 ffb503ab-2caa-3010-9cc3-fbd3cf5ae35b Wesley, Charles person reference agent-144331 adlib-agent-144331 2ed29a8e-40e5-3f1f-adb4-50218d94a490 Wesley, John reference term-108657 adlib-term-108657 c170cd8e-fc63-3446-81a4-6682b5979808 lead-glazed earthenware reference term-113184 adlib-term-113184 25fc548d-d02f-39a6-a34f-d609393a0043 J. W. L. Glaisher reddish-brown and black reference term-107563 adlib-term-107563 38dcd825-1de1-3222-82c6-15a95729b5ff enamels reference term-132615 adlib-term-132615 50475cf7-0163-3d56-a259-b8d1e8b82f44 underglaze black Decoration reference term-98112 adlib-term-98112 32d115a4-d3ac-33b0-b126-2a3da0fdf139 portrait Applied Arts White earthenware figure moulded in two parts with separately moulded right arm, and covered with a blue-tinged lead-glaze and painted with black and reddish brown enamels. 2011 2011 2011-11-08 Wesley stands with his left hand at his breast and his right raised in blessing. The figure is well coloured, but with the head and hands unpainted, save for the lips, eyes and eyebrows. He wears a floor-length black robe, with white bands at his neck and a wide brown sash belt. The deeply-waisted square base is painted in marbled brown. The underside is open. The back is moulded and decorated. C.974-1928 1 accession number C.974-1928 76481 priref 76481 1919 1919 1919 Glaisher MS catalogue, Volume: 22 old object number 4101 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76481 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76481 Rectangular paper label, handwritten in black script: inside base, on the back painted in black ink No. 4101 Standing figure of John Wesley upon a streaky red base b. at Christies, Feb 11 1919’ label reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Dr J.W.L.Glaisher Bequest reference agent-152564 adlib-agent-152564 c20df94d-f096-3e0b-a9b5-6ddd12161fb7 Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr 1928 1928 1928 bequeathed Entry date: 1928-12-07 1835 1835 CE 1835 circa 1835 1850 1 1850 CE 1850 circa 1850 production reference agent-187914 adlib-agent-187914 3ff8e302-3ac3-3560-9a60-800ee4445118 Unidentified factory John Wesley (1703 - 1791 ) was a founding father of Methodism. Many of his converts were working class people, such as colliers, foundry-men, weavers, spinners and potters. Methodism was thus strong amongst those who made Victorian Staffordshire figures, for whom John Wesley would have been one of the most important people of the preceding century. Rackham (1935) lists this figure as by an unidentified nineteenth century Staffordshire potter. Like most Staffordshire figures, it is unmarked, and there were many other, often smaller, manufacturers of figures working in Staffordshire at this time. Dr Glaisher also bequeathed a Rockingham porcelain figure of Wesley (C.3159-1928) preaching, c.1825-42, which, though holding a book in its left hand, is very similar to this figure and perhaps helps to date it. Underglaze black has been identified on the figures of several preachers made in the 1840s. There are also other Staffordshire religious figures modelled in a comparable pre-Victorian style which have been dated as late as 1851 (see, for example, C.995-1928). The source of this figure may be a Minton design. The first Minton design book includes drawings of both Charles and John Wesley, in the same clerical dress as that worn by this figure. The drawing of John Wesley has similar hair and long face, and its hands are raised, though the pose is not quite the same as the figure (see Atterbury]. reference term-109672 adlib-term-109672 a788e98b-c8a4-313c-9617-1a812228e864 19th Century, Mid reference term-120127 adlib-term-120127 ee2ddbd4-503c-30f5-8cf9-3c2d121bd315 Victoria I reference term-107658 adlib-term-107658 824d3ecf-92c1-33aa-8d45-2f0239317270 literal England England country literal Staffordshire Staffordshire region Staffordshire blue tinted reference term-107733 adlib-term-107733 00160189-e3ce-3796-a88b-5aa8d6c808c4 lead-glaze reference term-107611 adlib-term-107611 790e5a19-a186-34d5-a16e-2d8dff9f6247 white earthenware Depth cm 8 Depth in 3.125 Height cm 25 Height in 9.75 Width cm 8.5 Width in 3.25 reference media-47843 adlib-media-47843 fb8cda28-a985-349c-82a7-b8ab18c3018f jpeg aa/aa2/C_974_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1616286286178 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/mid_C_974_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1616286286178 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/C_974_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1616286286178 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/preview_C_974_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1616286286178 1 image 0 media image reference media-47844 adlib-media-47844 8b5f27f2-7a02-3a76-8d79-64f0d457c6d6 jpeg aa/aa2/C_974_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1616265486597 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/mid_C_974_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1616265486597 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/C_974_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1616265486597 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/preview_C_974_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1616265486597 1 image 1 media image reference term-107454 adlib-term-107454 6ca0f2ab-c1f8-329d-8a45-8f1322f53a20 figure category reference term-130674 adlib-term-130674 2728ba11-801b-318a-8f24-c6f4b99f08e3 Victorian Staffordshire figure category reference term-130678 adlib-term-130678 c683fbc6-ba3a-3ab1-b2f5-41493ff3588d flat-backed figure category history note Greville Douglas, Esq, 27 Wilton Crescent, London, S.W. Christie’s, 11 February 1919, lot 59, bought by Mr Stoner, on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. Auction price 3½ guineas (£3 ten shillings and sixpence) for this and another figure, ‘Popery’; Dr Glaisher paid £4 (including commission). 1 reference object-76385 adlib-object-76385 88a71cab-2011-3058-8d06-edbb8a8421bf

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figure reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. Vol. l, p. 127, no. 974 127 reference publication-1031 adlib-publication-1031 a5cc6cb3-2b6f-390a-af51-7e9d123e55ed Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Cf: a number of figures of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, though not this one, together with a drawing from the Minton design book which has some similarities with this figure. 380-384 reference publication-3585 adlib-publication-3585 784308ef-9535-3132-970c-45af8a273a64 Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victorian Era Figs. 165, 261, two Minton drawings for Wesley preaching, very similar in design and pose to this figure, though the positioning of the hands is less dramatic and in Fig 165 the left hand holds a book 93 reference publication-3696 adlib-publication-3696 5c3f4560-6fd0-3fcd-9629-de48b64bea5c The Parian Phenomenon, A Survey of Victorian Parian Porcelain Statuary and Busts reference publication-7239 adlib-publication-7239 857e9745-a48f-3c6e-9927-ed50a101ae74 Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Age a figure of John Wesley in his pulpit, over a fixed clock-face. The right hand raised as in this figure. 16 reference publication-7216 adlib-publication-7216 ae90609c-35b0-3a71-843a-73dea97c1dec Staffordshire Figures Cf: various figures and busts of John Wesley, though not this one 144-155 reference publication-7227 adlib-publication-7227 6dc55e19-7dee-3713-a8a4-c81f86e35351 Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835-1875, Book One: portraits, naval & military, theatrical & literary characters reference publication-7217 adlib-publication-7217 c1860f2b-473e-3562-a129-4344ff68ed22 Staffordshire Portrait Figures reference publication-200002955 adlib-publication-200002955 51ccd861-b6d9-3c0d-89fa-946cc1ad2dfd Preacher Ceramics - Figures and Plaques reference term-15214 adlib-term-15214 744af2c4-a2f2-37ad-bbf4-2cd00e91ed9b Victorian reference term-132675 adlib-term-132675 951245c5-07c2-32c3-85fd-d72588240d4c Methodism

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